This Netflix comedy is based on the true story of a Polish immigrant musician who drew his fans into a sophisticated Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of people out of millions of dollars.

Starring: Jack Black, Jenny Slate and Jason Schwartzman

Directors: Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky (Infinitely Polar Bear)

THE SHAPE OF WATER - January 18

Set in the early 1960s, a mute janitor working at a highly classified government facility comes across an amphibious creature, falls in love with him and sets out to free him in this tale of magical realism.

Swinging Safari tries to capture the chaos of Australian beachside life in the 1970s, focused on three families and their manic brood of kids. But everything changes when the parents get a little too frisky with some car keys and a vase.

Director: Stephan Elliott (The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert)

SWEET COUNTRY - January 25

When a middle-aged Aboriginal farmer kills a bitter war veteran in self defence, he's forced on the run in the Outback for the murder of a white man. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are dressmakers to the stars, draping royals, actors and socialites, but nothing seems to pierce Reynolds' steely heart until he meets a strong-willed woman who becomes his muse.

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood)

Vicky Krieps, left, and Daniel Day-Lewis appear in a scene from "Phantom Thread."

FATHER FIGURES - February 1

Twin brothers Kyle and Peter learn that their father didn't die young as their mother had told them, rather that he could be any number of famous men - so they go on a road trip to track him down.

A biopic of Jeff Bauman, a Costco employee who loses his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings. Jeff has to adjust to his new reality as a PTSD-afflicted amputee and a hero who gave the description of Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the FBI.

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany and Miranda Richardson

Director: David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express)

HAPPY END - February 8

A scathing critique of the French bourgeois, Happy End is the story of a construction family, the Laurents - the youngest might be a poisoner and the ageing patriarch wants to die.

The 18th instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will follow Black Panther, also known as King T'Challa, in the fictional kingdom of Wakanda as rivals conspire to bring him and the world down. This is the first Marvel superhero movie to feature a largely black cast.

Annihilation is a sci-fi/horror movie set in an enviromental disaster zone, from which a lone survivor returns on the brink of death, prompting his wife to lead another group back in to find out what happened.

A reboot adaptation of the video game franchise, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander will step into the role of Lara Croft as the archaeologist embarks on her first mission to solve her father's mysterious disappearance.

Based on the popular novel of the same name, the movie is set in a dystopian future where most people escape the drudgery of life by entering a virtual reality. Teenager Wade Watts is to find an Easter Egg within the VR world that would bequeath him a fortune.

From the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg oeuvre comes writer Kay Cannon's directorial debut. When three parents find out about their daughters' pact to lose their virginities on prom night, they set out thwart their plans.

Starring: Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena

Director: Kay Cannon (writer on 30 Rock, Pitch Perfect)

THE NEW MUTANTS - April 12

Set within the X-Men film franchise, five young mutants discover their abilities and fight to escape their imprisonment in a secret facility.

An all-out superhero epic, the third Avengers movie will see all of Marvel's fighters - Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Doctor Strange and Guardians among them - team up to battle the villainous Thanos and his universe-conquering plans.

Three Vietnam War veterans reunite on a bittersweet road trip when one of the men's sons is killed in the Iraq War, reminiscing about their time together.

Starring: Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne and Bryan Cranston

Director: Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Boyhood)

BREATH - May 3

Breath is Australian actor Simon Baker's directorial debut, an adaptation of Tim Winton's book. Set in the 1970s, the movie tells the story of two teenage boys and their relationship with an older, risk-taking surfer.

When Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into the water in 1969, killing a young staffer named Mary Jo Kopechne, he didn't call the police, fearing scandal. Instead he turned to his overbearing father, Kennedy patriarch Joe, for help.

This is the third remake of the classic 1937 film, the most famous of which was the 1954 version starring Judy Garland. An ageing star helps a young ingenue find fame despite his own career's downward spiral.

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliot and Dave Chappelle

Director: Bradley Cooper (directorial debut)

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY - May 24

A standalone prequel to the first Star Wars trilogy, Solo will follow the adventures of a young Han Solo. The production has been beset by problems with its original directors sacked and replaced.

A sequel to Jurassic World and the fifth instalment in the franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will see our heroes return to the island to save the dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption and certain extinction.

Adapted from Meg Wolitzer's novel, this drama stars Glenn Close as the long-suffering wife of a famed author who has sacrificed her own ambitions for his career. Then she reaches breaking point.

Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater

Director: Bjorn Runge (Mouth To Mouth)

MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN - July 19

A follow-up to the successful 2008 musical, this time Sophie is pregnant and facing single motherhood. When she doubts she'll be able to do it, her mother's friends recount how Donna was able to make a go of it all those years ago.

New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her boyfriend Nick to a wedding in Singapore, where she finds out he's the heir to a mega-rich family. Now she has to contend with jealous socialites and an intimidating almost-mother-in-law. Crazy Rich Asians is the first major Hollywood-funded movie to feature primarily an Asian cast.

Based on a New York Times article, the film follows a son and his dying, estranged photographer father on a road trip across the country to the only place in the world that still develops Kodachrome film.

Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris and Elizabeth Olsen

Director: Mark Raso (Copenhagen)

THE LITTLE STRANGER - August 30

Adapted from Sarah Waters' best-selling book, The Little Stranger tells the story of a 1940s doctor who's called to look after a patient at a country estate where his mother once worked as a housemaid. There are secrets that threaten to haunt both families.

Queen of France at 16 and widowed by 18, Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne only to have to battle her "sister" Queen Elizabeth I in a game of betrayal, rebellion and power. House of Cards creator Beau Willimon wrote the screenplay.

Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant and Guy Pearce

Director: Josie Rourke (theatre director's feature debut)

Saoirse Ronan is also having a busy year

ROBIN HOOD - September 20

A new version of the classic adventure of Robin Hood and his merry band of thieves, this darker adaptation is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's company.

A group of misfit adults are forced into night school so they can finally graduate from high school and get their diploma in this comedy Kevin Hart co-wrote.

Starring: Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Ben Schwartz and Rob Riggle

Director: Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip)

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE - October 4

A thriller set in the 1960s, Bad Times at the El Royale will see a group of shady characters, including a down-on-his-luck priest, clash at a hotel near Lake Tahoe.

Starring: Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Bridges

Director: Drew Goddard (Cabin In The Woods, screenwriter on The Martian)

VENOM - October 4

The first in a series of Spider-Man spin-offs in Sony's Marvel Universe (not to be confused with the main Marvel Cinematic Universe), the movie will introduce the character of superhero Eddie Brock/Venom. The movie is said to be inspired by the works of David Cronenberg and John Carpenter.

Starring: Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams

Director: Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland)

HALLOWEEN - October 18

Four decades after Laurie Strode first met Michael Myers, the killer behind the mask, the pair are set for their final confrontation.

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Nick Castle

Director: David Gordon Green (Stronger, Manglehorn)

Look behind you!

MOWGLI - October 18

An origin story for Mowgli, the human child brought up by a wolf pack in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the movie will be a mix of live action and motion-capture animation.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, is back in the first instalment based on David Lagercrantz's continuation of Stieg Larson's books. This time, she and Mikael find themselves caught in a spider's web of cybercriminals.

Starring: Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason and Sylvia Hoeks

Director: Fede Alvarez (Don't Breathe)

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX - November 1

Set a decade after X-Men: Apocalypse, Jean Grey is accidentally supercharged and struggles to control her powers when an alien shapeshifter seeks to exploit her for an evil plan.

A heist thriller based on the 1983 British TV show of the same name, the screenplay was written by Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn. It involves the widows of four robbers who try to finish the job that killed their husbands.

When dark wizard Grindelwald escapes custody in an effort to raise an army of pure-blood wizards, a young Albus Dumbledore must enlist the help of his former student Newt Scamander to put an end to his evil-doing.

Originally slated for release in late 2017 as an Oscar hopeful, this movie portrays the rivalry for electricity supremacy between pioneers Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Its release was delayed because of the Weinstein scandal and it currently has no release date.